AVRIL MAKULA | MAKE/UNMAKE/REMAKE: CREATIVE SERENDIPITY IN ARTISTS BOOKS
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Monday 12 – Friday 16 January 2026 – Only 2 places left!
Happenstance and random organisation are great strategies to reveal new ways of seeing or to overcome the limitation we sometimes feel when we’re working through ideas. Starting with large sheets of paper we will experiment with markmaking and surface transformation, then convert and rework these sheets into pages for books. We will explore a range of structures, both codex and sculptural, while employing good bookbinding practice and paper handling techniques to make imaginative and distinctive book works.
All levels
Happenstance and random organisation are great strategies to reveal new ways of seeing or to overcome the limitation we sometimes feel when we’re working through ideas. Starting with large sheets of paper we will experiment with markmaking and surface transformation, then convert and rework these sheets into pages for books. We will explore a range of structures, both codex and sculptural, while employing good bookbinding practice and paper handling techniques to make imaginative and distinctive book works.
All levels
AVRIL MAKULA Bio
Website alphabetcitypress.com
Instagram avrilmakula
Avril Makula is a book artist, book designer, bookbinder and owner of Alphabet City Press. Her practice includes printing and binding books using both new and old technologies, taking discarded books and restructuring them into new forms, and making prints using letter shapes. While much of her work explores the book as art using typography, geometry and colour as content, she finds herself increasingly influenced by the natural world around her, incorporating themes of connection to place and landscape. She is also interested in the way a closed book can reveal its secrets depending on how it is opened by the reader. Avril has published ‘Type Town: a neighbourhood of glyphs, graffiti, ligatures and legs’, and her bookworks are held in public and private collections.
Instagram avrilmakula
Avril Makula is a book artist, book designer, bookbinder and owner of Alphabet City Press. Her practice includes printing and binding books using both new and old technologies, taking discarded books and restructuring them into new forms, and making prints using letter shapes. While much of her work explores the book as art using typography, geometry and colour as content, she finds herself increasingly influenced by the natural world around her, incorporating themes of connection to place and landscape. She is also interested in the way a closed book can reveal its secrets depending on how it is opened by the reader. Avril has published ‘Type Town: a neighbourhood of glyphs, graffiti, ligatures and legs’, and her bookworks are held in public and private collections.
